Sonic Studio in the News

sB 1.2.2 Ships with Free Sonic EQ le

We’ve announced the release of a new version our flagship professional product, soundBlade, along with a new, no–cost version of Sonic EQ that accompanies this release. Running natively on the secure and user friendly Mac OS X, soundBlade relies on Core Audio for default I/O so hardware lock–in is eliminated. The 1.2.2 release incorporates hundreds of optimizations and stability enhancements.

A new twist for Sonic Studio is the release of Sonic EQ le, a free version of their legendary equalization, and a welcome addition to any engineer’s audio toolkit. Sonic EQ le is a proprietary implementation of equalizer that includes three different filter types, including a first order parametric, along with first order high and low shelves. In a departure from previous Sonic EQ releases, Sonic EQ le can also be used with any Mac audio product that hosts VST plug –ins…MORE.

Sonic Studio taps MASE for EMEA

We’ve also announced that Minnetonka Audio Software Europe GmbH has been selected to represent and distribute all Sonic Studio products in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Partnering with Minnetonka Audio’s newly established European division is a key step in continuing to introduce Sonic Studio's benchmark technology to the worldwide market…MORE.

PMCD™ 3 is Released

We’ve also announced the release of a completely new version of our low cost premastering application, PreMaster CD™. The 3.0 release provides native support for both Intel and PowerPC hosts. This new, Universal Binary release consolidates all the maintenance changes incorporated into the code base while improving both ease of use, speed and stability on all Intel and PowerPC Macs.

PreMaster CD opens up a portable treasure chest of expert premastering features, including completely manual, automatic and semi–automatic PQ generation. Sonic Studio’s exclusive Smart Fade Tool and background CD writing, along with easy drag and drop resequencing makes quick work of CD refs. The new version, which includes enhanced dither choices, adds iZotope’s proprietary MBIT+™ redithering algorithm to Sonic Studio’s spectrally shaped TPDF redithering. Both choices are psychoacoustically–optimized redithering schemes, each with a different sonic “color,” so you can match your redithering choice to your material…MORE.

Sonic Studio at the 124th AES

Amsterdam’s RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre will be the rallying point for audio pro with the 124th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. Sonic Studio, LLC will be there, sharing stand #2212 with partners MASI and Legendary Audio. We’ll be launching new products and new versions, demonstrating our current wares, and providing a glimpse at future technologies of note.

The company will stage the first public showing of several new items. A brief look at the convention highlights include:

• the release of PreMaster CD™ version 3.0

• the release of soundBlade™ version 1.2.2

• the release of the Quartet DynPEQ plug –in

• the release of a new DSD transcoding option

• the release of a free Sonic EQ le plug –in

We’ll also have ongoing demonstrations of all our products, including a UB version of soundBlade, Series 300™ DSP I/O Processors, and the nexStage™ DSD line of post–production tools. If you don’t have your exhibits pass yet, click here to get one…See you there!

Sonic Studio Adds to Sales Team

Sonic Studio has appointed two industry professionals to their North American sales force. Dave Larsen, the new Direct Sales Representative for Sonic Studio, is an industry veteran of thirty–plus years. Jay Harper, has been named as product specialist for the Sonic Studio line. Harper brings almost twenty years of experience in the music business, with live sound, studio engineering and post as well as a stint at Digidesign in their customer service and sales departments…MORE.

Customer CloseUp — Airshow

Dave Glasser, owner and chief engineer at Airshow Mastering in Boulder Colorado has mastered over 60 Grammy–nominated. He knows of what he speaks and, in this customer close–up, he discusses his recent Sonic Studio acquisitions…MORE.

PreMaster CD Aces Three Reviews

From Greece, the March issue of SoundMaker ran a review of PreMaster CD and, not surprisingly, our product gets two thumbs up!

Larry DeVivo reviewed PreMaster CD in Issue #55 of Tape Op Magazine…“All in all, I’m very happy with Sonic Studio’s PreMaster CD. It will be my first choice in assembling masters to send to the manufacturing plant from now on. A powerful program with a tried and true heritage available as native software for the Mac at a reasonable price.” Read the review.

Erik Zobler reviewed PreMaster CD in the December 2006 issue of Mix Magazine…“I'm sold on the benefits of PMCD as a highly evolved, powerful tool for audio CD preparation that delivers high-quality masters on a superior format at a very reasonable price.” Read the review.

Intel Compatibility

Apple’s consumer and pro lines are all fitted with Intel processors. Although PreMaster CD 3 is a Universal Binary (UB) release, soundBlade runs well on Intel–equipped Macs. We at Sonic Studio are committed to Universal support of all our products for Mac OS and expect to have a UB version of soundBlade ready for Fall AES.

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